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2 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2013 3 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2013 the Traditional Publishing Industry Is Broken Because the Gates Are Closed to Talented New Authors 2 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2013 3 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2013 The traditional publishing industry is broken Because the gates are closed to talented new authors Self-publishing never had a chance Because there is no quality control There has to be another way VIRTUES OF WAR Which isn’t all about the money 978-0-986672-20-0 WINNER – CYGNUS AWARD MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION Promontory Press is a new kind of publisher which offers the high quality, full distribution and sales support of traditional publishing, blended with the flexibility and author control of self-publishing. Created by authors for authors, Promontory recognizes that publishing is a busi- ness, but never forgets that writing is an art. STILLPOINT 978-1-927559-01-7 FINALIST – INDIE BOOK AWARD If you have a great book and GENERAL FICTION want a great shot at the market, contact us. AWARD-WINNERS PROMONTORY 2013 4 BC BOOKWORLD SUMMER 2013 BCTOP* SELLERS PEOPLE Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook & the Politics of Memory, Church, & Custom (UBC Press $39.95) by Leslie A. Robertson with the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan Raven Brings the Light (Harbour $19.95) by Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd Indian Horse (D&M $21.95) by Richard Wagamese Little You (Orca Books $9.95) by Richard Van Camp & Julie Flett Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking (Sandhill Book Marketing $19.95) by Allen Carr Shoot! (New Star Books $19) by George Bowering He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Going overboard Claims Accord (Ronsdale Press $21.95) by Joan Harper “One of the things I have learned over the years is that in order to do what we do, we have to be immune to criticism.” – Paul Watson In 2012, Paul Watson became only the second person to receive France’s Jules Verne Award; the first was Jacques Cousteau. Here he appears in Paris in 2011 with Lamya Essemlali, his co-author for Interview with a Pirate: Captain Paul Watson (Firefly 24.95). N THE LATE 1970S, AS GREENPEACE WAS STARTING TO GO CORPO- with Brigitte Bardot, Farley Mowat and Pierce Brosnan. David Korinetz rate and local control was ceded to American and European offices, Watson’s adventures trying to disrupt business on the high seas in order Paul Watson, the breakaway rebel, used to come into the Geor- to protect other species from driftnet fishing have been chronicled by David Sorceress gia Straight newspaper office in Vancouver and oversee paste-up in Earth Warrior: Overboard with Paul Watson and the Sea (Red Tuque Books $16.95) B. Morris by David Korinetz of publicity materials for his own Sea Shepherd Society anti-seal Shepherd Conservation Society (Fulcrum 1995). Ihunting and anti-whaling initiatives. The Straight was barely surviving by A feature-length movie is forever in the works. Meanwhile Vancouver- Sensational Victoria: Bright publishing a porn mag called the Vancouver Star using filched material from based filmmaker Trish Dolman directed a compelling, warts ‘n’ all docu- Lights, Red Lights, Murders, U.S. publications. Its layout tables would be festooned with slaughtered mentary, Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson in 2011, revealing the Ghosts & Gardens (Anvil $24) by Eve Lazarus whales and images of nakedness almost as disturbing... egocentricity required to be a leader during forty years of sustained activism. That was so long ago. Harpooning Greenpeace throughout, Watson reiterates his Sea Shepherd Hollyhock: Garden To Time magazine has since included Watson in its list of the 20th century’s Conservation Society mandate “to end the destruction of habitat and slaugh- (New Society Publishers Table twenty greatest ecologists. $24.95) by Moreka Jolar & ter of wildlife in the world’s oceans” in his latest book, Interview with a Heidi Scheifley Nowadays Amchitka is a strange word, Phyllis Cormack is a forgotten Pirate: Captain Paul Watson (Firefly $24.95), co-authored with Lamya fishboat and the rabble-rousing risk-taker Paul Watson has been called, by Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society France. Martin Sheen — the actor who has appeared as America’s former TV In it, Watson repeats his contested claim that he was the youngest co- president in West Wing and the commander in Apocalypse Now — “by far the founder of Greenpeace, at age eighteen. most knowledgeable, dedicated and courageous environmentalist alive today.” For any detractors who disapprove of his confrontational tactics to stop Watson has also been highly praised and funded by environmentalist the Japanese whaling fleet, he has the perfect comeback: “Find us a whale Farley Mowat with whom he shares an innate, child-honed reverence for who disapproves of our actions and we promise to give it up.” Bennett other species. ✍ R. Coles It all started for Watson at age eleven in New Brunswick when he discov- RADICALISM STILL LIVES IN B.C., IF ONLY ON PAPER. Virtues of War ered a beaver that he had befriended had been slain by trappers. Infuriated As a descendant of Scottish coal miners who came (Promontory Press $21.99) and heartsick, the boy set about finding and destroying the traps. to Vancouver Island in the late 1800s, by Bennett R. Coles Stephen He remains on the same path as a man, grudgingly admired by many of Collis first wrote Mine (New Star, 2001), a recon- The Canadian Pacific’s his Greenpeace peers, despite his criticisms of their organization. struction of the early history of the B.C. coal indus- Esquimalt & Nanaimo “Greenpeace lost touch with its roots a long time ago,” he once said. “It’s try from which sprang trade unionism in B.C. Railway: The CPR Steam lost its passion. It’s a corporation, a multinational corporation... It was followed by his investigation into the Years, 1905–1949 Stephen Collis (Sono Nis $39.95) “Other groups are doing a hell of a lot more than Greenpeace on a fraction connection between anarchy and poetry, Anarchive by Robert D. Turner & of the budget, and they don’t litter the U.S. with 48 million pieces of direct (New Star, 2005), partially inspired by the Spanish Civil War, a conflict so Donald F. MacLachlan mail per year. I think it’s hypocritical for an environmental organization to essential to the evolution of counter-culturalists such as George Orwell litter the world with so much junk. The problem is, Greenpeace is a feel-good and . They Called Me George Woodcock Number One: Secrets organization. People join to feel good. It’s a waste of millions of dollars...” Now Collis has released To the Barricades (Talon $16.95) to examine and Survival at an A veteran of the confrontation at Wounded Knee and an active supporter shifting strategies of revolt and protest in contemporary social justice cam- Indian Residential of indigenous people’s protests, Paul Watson was nominated as a Green paigns such as the Occupy movement and Idle No More. It is described as (Talonbooks $19.95) School Party candidate for mayor of Vancouver in 1996. by Bev Sellars a collection of explorations “to drive apathy from the field and recover In the new century Watson has taken tourists to the Galapagos Islands forgotten radical ideas.” Birds of BC: A Photo- when he’s not engaged in environmental campaigns. Along the way he has Collis simultaneously examines historical authenticity and authority in graphic Journey managed to get several books into the world. The Red Album (Book Thug $24). This fictional story, in the tradition of (Heritage Group $35.95) Watson first co-authored Cry Wolf! with Greenpeace co-founder by Glenn Bartley Robert Borges and Nabokov, is complicated by a growing maze of author/charac- Hunter in 1985, then a memoir entitled Seal Wars: Twenty-Five Years on ters, “as the ghosts of social revolutions of the past are lifted from the soil * The current topselling titles the Front Lines (2000). It begins in 1995 when Watson was holed up in the in Catalonia, and a new revolution unfolds in South America.” from major BC publishing companies, in no particular order. Magdalen Islands with Martin Sheen. He recalls his forays on the ice floes Pirate 978-1-77085-173-3; Album 9781927040652; Barricades 978-0-88922-747-7 Publication Mail Agreement #40010086 COMING SOON Publisher/ Writer: Advertising & editorial: Contributors: John Moore, Joan Givner, Sage Birchwater, Shane McCune All BC BookWorld reviews Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Mark Forsythe, Louise Donnelly, Cherie Thiessen, Writing not otherwise are posted online at Alan Twigg BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6R 2S3 Vancouver, B.C., V6R 2S3. credited is by staff. Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics www.abcbookworld.com • Tel/Fax: 604-736-4011 Consultants: Christine Rondeau, Monique Sherrett, Sharon Jackson Produced with the sponsorship of Email: [email protected]. 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